Re: Thick vs.thin (was: [ga] Casting stones)

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

WXW and all assembly members,

  This is a fairly good settlement.  It also shows plainly that Verisign
is in the deception business when it suits them and they think that
they can get away with it.  But they didn't get away this time
and had to make some restitution to the stakeholders.

  The settlement also points up how poor a job the ICANN
BoD and staff are doing in policing their registrar's and
enforcing their Registrar contracts...

  I would strongly suggest that the ICANN Staff in particular
start earning their huge salaries and get of their duff's and do
their jobs ASAP of more of this sort of thing will occur..

William X Walsh wrote:

> http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/020807/phw049_1.html
> BulkRegister.com and Verisign reached a confidential settlement in the
> lawsuit.
>
> Wednesday, August 07, 2002, 1:16:42 PM, George Kirikos wrote:
>
> > Hello,
>
> > --- "Gomes, Chuck" <cgomes@verisign.com> wrote:
> >> Do you have any data to back up your conclusion about the cost of the
> >> network?
> >> > -----Original Message-----
> >> > From: Ross Wm. Rader [mailto:ross@tucows.com]
> >> > While the thick registry is certainly convenient from a
> >> > management point
> >> > of view, the cost to the network likely exceeds the value of the
> >> > savings...
>
> > There are more "costs" than simply the operational costs incurred in
> > running the centralized WHOIS. One should also consider other things.
> > One example, for instance, is the abuse that can occur when such a
> > valuable database is centralized in hands that seem to have no problem
> > "testing the limits" of the law, as per the current FTC investigation
> > into the trade practises of a company we all know and love....
>
> > The costs to consumers, registrars, and other market participants due
> > to those practises are non-trivial, albeit difficult to measure.
>
> > Perhaps your colleagues can tell us exactly how many of those "renewal
> > notices" were mailed out, to assist us in estimating those costs. If 5%
> > of individuals got confused, had to call their registrars (incurring
> > increased support costs) for 10 minutes of support, at $20/hour, we can
> > provide some educated guesses as to some of the costs. Perhaps another
> > 0.1 percent had their business disrupted (email, webservices, etc.) for
> > 10 days, at a cost of $100/day, adding even more to the true "costs".
>
> > Sincerely,
>
> > George Kirikos
> > http://www.kirikos.com/
>
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